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tribes at different points in the Western Ghats and Coasts ; the 
es ‘Neade’ are mentioned in Travan- 
core and Cochin, but they are no doubt the same as Chermers 
and Nagadees, the slaves of Malabar. The Dhers and Ramooses 
of the centre and west of the Peninsula seem to be mixed up 
with the general population. On all these points more precise 
information is much required. It is not till we cross the 
Godavery to the north, that we come to the country really 
held by the Aborigines’’( p. 31). But thanks to the Ethno- 
graphic Survey of the Cochin State, ethnologists are to-day 
almost as familiar with the aboriginal tribes of the Cochin hills 
and jungles as they are with the tribes living north of the 
Godavari,—namely, the various tribes of the northern hills 
from the Aka. the Daffla, the Miri, the Abor, the Mishmi, the 
Singhpo, the Khamti, the Naga, the Mikir, the Kuki, the Lushai, 
the Garo, the Khasi, the Kachari, and the Meithie of Assam, to 
the Bhotiya, the Lepcha, the Champa, the Ladakhi, the Balti, 
the Dard, the Pahari, the Dogra, the Tharu, the Bogsha, the 
Naga and the Khasa or Khasia, of the central and Western 
Himalayan and Sub-Himalayan regions; and the Baloch. the 
Brahui, the Kafir, the Waziri, the Afridi, the Swatee, the Mom- 
mand, and other Trans-Indus tribes further to the north-west ; 
and then the numerous tribes of the highlands and hills to the 
south of the Gangetic plains from the Juang, the Savara, the 
Banjara, the Bendkar and the Bhuiya of the Orissa hills on the 
east, the Oraon, the Munda. the Ho, the Bhumii, the Birhor, 
the Korwa, the Kharia, the Pahira, the Asur, and the Birjia. 
besides other minor tribes of the Chota Nagpur plateaux ; the 
Santal, the Mal Paharia and the Sauria Paharia of the Santal 
Parganas; the Gond, the Khond, the Parja, the Gadava, the 
Korku, the Kisan, the Kawar, and the lesser tribes of the 
Central Provinces, to the Bhil and the Koli extending as far 
west as Guzerat, the home of the stalwart and turbulent 
Gujars. 
These volumes on the Castes and Tribes of the different 
Provinces are, however, mere general and superficial surveys 
that fail to furnish that detailed exposition of kinship organiza- 
tion and social system, primitive ideas, usages and customs, 
religious beliefs and ritual. superstitions and folklore, which is 
needed for the purpose of scientific anthropology. As descrip- 
tive catalogues—or ‘ Ethnographic Glossaries, ’ as their authors 
appropriately designate them,—they may well serve as usefu 
bases for more intensive studies of the various interesting 
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